Driver Training

Driver training is obligatory under law and should ensure that your drivers are safe drivers and a valuable asset to your company. Penton
Transport Management have been training drivers for many years, most notably within the realms of EU Drivers Hours Regulations (EC 561/06),
Tachographs (EU regulation 3821/85), or as the legislation calls them 'recording equipment', and the most recent legislation
that has required the need for training concerns the Road Transport Working Time Directive, which came into effect in April 2005.

Quality driver training should not be considered as yet another cost implication to the 'bottom line'. You are obliged under law to
train your staff, whatever their role within your company and although there is a cost implication to all training, there are also many
benefits to be had from doing so, not least, Improved Company image, Improved Fuel Efficiency, Better Carbon Footprint and Safer Drivers.

Penton Transport Management are able to offer direct training in the following areas for HGV and PSV drivers:

Digital/Analogue Tachograph Use and Records

EC Drivers' Hours Regulations

First Use Inspection/Maintenance Checks

Additional Driver Training
We are well aware that there is more to driver training than Tachographs and Drivers' Hours records, therefore to support our clients with
the many additional training requirements, we have formed close associations with training providers able to offer the quality training
services that compliment our professional standards. Subsequently, we are able to offer the following services via our associates for HGV and
PSV, including:-

Driver CPC Periodic Training

LGV Licence Acquisition Training

Occupational Road Risk Assessment

Driver Assessment and Corrective Training

Vehicle Upgrade Inductions

Hazard Perception and Theory Training

Women Drivers at Work Safety Workshop

Health & Safety Training

Roadside Checks - Tachograph Offences
Prior to April 2015, if one of your drivers was stopped in a DVSA Roadside Check, fixed penalties could only be imposed in relation to offences which were
being, or had been, committed on the occasion of detection. In other words, the offence needed to be committed at the time or immediately before the driver
was stopped at the roadside. However, that situation changed in April 2015.

Following consultation, the Department for Transport (DfT) supplemented the legislation to permit historic driversí hours offences (for example where a
chart from the previous week shows a daily rest infringement), it would be included in the Graduated Fixed Penalty Scheme. In fact the historical element
of this action now goes back 28 days from the date the driver is stopped, with all offences found falling within the scheme and allowing the DVSA to issue
the relevant GFPN or, if serious enough, to take matters further in a court of law.

Taking into consideration the two paragraphs above, training could potentially become a key element in an operator retaining their operator licence at a
public inquiry.